MURDER AT THE MISSION: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West

In this fascinating, impeccably researched narrative, Harden traces the origins and effects of a foundational American myth across more than a century. Exposing the self-serving nature of American myth-making, his account reminds us of the dark realities of American expansion and of the lies that can persist when history is told only by victors. Illus.